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Table of Contents | Features | Frontlines | Technology | Business
Even if you haven't caught the Twitter bug, some of your colleagues are likely hooked on it. Mostly what they're saying on Twitter is innocuous, like "I went to eat in Chinatown." But some may be naming names and writing things like "Smith & Smith law firm is evil" or "We're working on a case that'll put Acme Corporation in a market tailspin."
Twitter, for the uninitiated, is a free micro-blogging service that allows its users to exchange updates on their current doings—otherwise known as "tweets," which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length. The posts are displayed on the user's profile page and delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them. You can learn more at http://twitter.com.
But for our purposes, here's the immediate question: Is a tweet done on firm resources a "record" for purposes of retention requirements and ESI preservation or production? Well, that's a thorny question. All experts agree it is discoverable, but whether it is a record requiring retention may depend on whether it is a corporate tweet or a personal one.
For a while, record managers thought they had the online universe pretty well covered with company-approved programs for employees' e-mail usage. But now tools like blogs, Twitter and online social networking sites are giving almost everyone a Goliath-size headache. Whether you are thinking in terms of your own law firm or your clients' organizations, you'll want to get clued in to the retention issues involved in these new technologies.
The Danger in a Little Tweet
By current industry estimates, nearly 3.5 million unique visitors hit Twitter each month—a number that is growing exponentially. Many among that vast group, of course, don't realize that those little 140-character tweets can go anywhere and create a permanent record. Add to that the fact that, like IMs and e-mails, these quick electronic messages may be composed when someone is angry, frustrated or even under the influence of too much wine, sometimes leading them to display poor judgment in their posts.
Douglas Winter, who heads the electronic discovery unit at Bryan Cave, stresses that tweets are no different from letters, e-mails or text messages (see the December 22, 2008, National Law Journal article, "Beware:Your'Tweet' on Twitter Could Be Trouble")—they may be damaging and discoverable, which is especially problematic for companies that are required to preserve electronic records, such as the securities industry and federal contractors. Yet another compliance headache is born.
Twitter is by no means the only micro-blogging service. There is also Yammer and present.ly (no, that's not a typo), and surely many more to come. Also, enterprise versions are beginning to emerge, but there is currently precious little policy to govern them. For the most part, micro-blogs are being treated as blogs from a corporate policy perspective.
But just what does that mean, when policies on employees' blogging remain much less than perfect?
What's in a Blog Policy, Anyhow?
The fact is, as blogs have exploded in number and popularity over the past few years, so have cases in which employees have disclosed trade secrets and insider trading information on their blogs. Blogs have also led to wrongful termination and harassment suits. Blogs, clearly, can be a Pandora's box.
Organizations should, of course, have written policies about blogging at work or, probably more importantly, about work. One case, Nickolas v. Fletcher (2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 23843 (E.D. Ky. Mar. 30, 2007)), has suggested that employers may have the right to prevent employees from accessing blogs while at work. But the blogosphere has become so ingrained in the Web culture, and has so many varied business uses, that blocking access to blogs in the workplace probably isn't realistic for many organizations.
So where blogs are allowed at work, here are some general guidelines to follow. The organization needs to maintain archives where retention of work-related posts is mandated under the relevant laws or regulations. Blogs do indeed create a "paper" trail, for better or worse. Corporate blogging versus individual employee blogging presents different challenges—one clearly speaks for the corporation. The other may or may not, depending on the circumstances.
Also, enterprise blogs require security and authentication and audit trails. Likewise, it should be possible to search them, issue reports and the like. Control over enterprise blogs can be appliance based, through an enterprise application or through software as a service (SaaS). In addition, an enterprise will certainly want to consider who it will allow to post comments on the blog!
Audit trails should capture all changes, including new posts, changed or deleted posts, and comments and discussion. They should capture con-text, including who posted, or commented, what posts are read and what posts are "trackbacked" (i.e., when Web authors are notified if someone links back to one of their writings).
Overall, we advise following this very simple corporate blog policy that one wit has suggested: "Don't be stupid."
Tackling Social Networking
As popular as blogging is, the virtual lifeblood of many employees resides in online social networking sites, including MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn and Plaxo. There are abundant potential risks on these sites for businesses that don't monitor employees' use of them—which would be most businesses—so therefore all the risks associated with blogs apply here. Some experts believe that companies are well advised to use filters to block access to all social networking sites at work. At the very least, this action will keep the posts from being company records.
On the other hand, genuine business usage of these sites has grown tremendously. (See Doug Cornelius's Legal Web 2.0 installment in the January/February Law Practice for more on this.) Plus, it may be very difficult to allow business usage for things like professional networking and researching and then forbid personal usage, no matter what a company's policy may say.
However, checking the social net-working profiles of potential employees may be wise, as you may get some sense of trouble brewing in the future with a prospective hire, such as a lack of discretion, angry entries, a TMI (too much information) proclivity or the like.
But what about employers monitor-ing their current employees through social networking sites? Is this really happening in the wild? To check the pulse on this, the authors did an ad hoc online survey. Although everyone said an employer has a right to monitor, no one actually knew of an employer that was monitoring personal sites. Likewise, others in the field have not yet been able to cite a case where social networking was involved to the detriment of the employer, but the consensus is clear—just wait a bit, it's coming.
So what to do for now? These emerging technologies are fluid (changes on social networking sites, comments on blogs, ever-expanding discussions on wikis and so forth). How do you manage something that isn't static and that has multiple authors? Snapshots are one method. Periodic archiving is another possibility, though it is a headache to schedule it. Training and education could be particularly helpful. Employees need to understand that (1) they may be creating "records" when they use these technologies and (2) they must think before they create potential records, bearing the risks of what they create in mind.
When Technology Leapfrogs Ahead
The law relating to emerging Web technologies (and we haven't covered wikis, unified messaging or VoIP, among others) is vastly underdeveloped, which presents a formidable challenge to records managers. It's a brave new world, and most corporations and law firms are having a heck of a time dealing with it. It can involve huge costs, business disruptions, public embarrassment and, gulp, legal liability.
Management of Web 2.0 records is limited at best, often chaotic and duplicative. If you have any guiding principle, make it this: Content, not form, drives retention requirements. Policies governing records in your law firm or business should address all forms of communications—and you'll need to review these policies at least annually in light of newly evolving technologies.
Sharon D. Nelson and John W. Simek are President and Vice President, respectively, of Sensei Enterprises, Inc., a computer forensics and legal technology firm based in Fairfax, VA.


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Friday, March 18, 2011
TNA At A Crossroads
Still, with a roster packed full of talent as well as the freedom to produce a product that is truly unique, TNA is in a fortunate position to potentially capture and maintain a respectable share of the business.
But success isn't measured in potential. It's not measured in what "could be" or what "should happen." Success is measured in results. It comes from forward progress and growth. Further, success often comes about when folks actually learn from their mistakes and adjust their strategies and future plans accordingly. And let's face it: The outcome of last weekend's Victory Road pay-per-view was a nearly unforgivable mistake.
By most accounts, Victory Road, despite having some decent moments, wasn't exactly a historical event. Most of the feuds weren't resolved and there were some head-scratching results in the mix. Then there was the non-finish to the number-one contenders' match between Mr. Anderson and Rob Van Dam. Having two potential number-one contenders battle to a double-disqualification makes no sense, but given the energy and talent of both men, I can almost see how TNA would want the Anderson-RVD feud to burn just a little longer.
There is, however, no excuse for what happened in the main event between Sting and Jeff Hardy. On paper, it should have been an epic: the returning veteran Sting, holding the "Immortal" championship belt forged in the very likeness of challenger Jeff Hardy, defending his title against the self-proclaimed "Antichrist of Professional Wrestling."
But after an ominous delay at the beginning of the pre-match fanfare, Hardy emerged from backstage appearing dazed and sluggish as he made a slow, low-octane trudge to the ring. The tension was clear on the faces of everyone else who entered from that point forward. From Jeremy Borash to referee Brian Hebner to "The Icon" himself, the tension was palpable. Even the usually unflappable Eric Bischoff looked to be on edge as he took to the mike to add a nonsensical and ultimately unnecessary no-DQ stipulation.
Things quickly deteriorated from there. Once the bell rang, fans were treated to nearly one full minute of Hardy teasing that he would throw his shirt into the crowd as he staggered from one side of the ring to the other. A few half-hearted maneuvers later, Sting landed the pin and it was all over. Hardy looked genuinely shocked. Sting looked genuinely pissed, and he demonstratively agreed with some very irate and vocal fans that they had been screwed, though not nearly as badly as those who had paid 30 bucks to watch the pay-per-view.
By now, most everyone in the wrestling world knows the most crucial statistic of the match: 88 seconds. That's how long it took for Sting to pin Jeff Hardy. And, by golly, it was a real pin, as Sting laid every bit of his 258 pounds across Hardy's torso to force an end to the debacle.
The evening promptly went down as the latest black mark on the public image of TNA Wrestling. But what matters most at this point is how TNA reacts to this embarrassment. Many sources and signs point to Jeff Hardy as the sole reason Victory Road's main event fell apart, as the quick finish came about because Hardy arrived at the event "in no condition to wrestle." Indeed, his appearance and demeanor lend credence to this explanation. Moreover, Hardy's history of personal demons, professional missteps, and legal woes provide a strong backdrop of circumstantial evidence indicating that Hardy is in real trouble, both inside and outside of the ring. This is not the first time Hardy arrived at a major TNA event in questionable condition. At Final Resolution 2010, he reportedly showed up in bad shape. Eventually, his condition that night was attributed to exhaustion due to travel, not substance abuse of any kind.
Regardless, the bottom line is that Hardy has shown an inability to handle a spot at the top of TNA's roster. Even if he were scheduled to wrestle in six-man dark matches at Victory Road and Turning Point, he owes it to his employers and co-workers to show up ready to put his best foot forward, especially if he entertains any serious aspirations of helping TNA gain traction as a viable alternative to WWE. The stakes are that much higher when TNA is counting on him to headline a World title match.
Hardy is solely responsible for the choices he makes, but TNA should not wait until he buries the promotion and/or himself with his lack of professionalism. The fact is that no matter how his drug trafficking trial turns out, it's time for TNA management to make a decision on Hardy's future with the company. It is simply not fair for all those, from talent to ownership, that want so desperately for TNA to succeed to be subjected to the fallout of Hardy's exploits.
Yes, Hardy made TNA look amateurish at Victory Road, but TNA has an opportunity to look professional again by handling Hardy in the proper manner, even if moving forward means leaving him behind.
Mike Bessler
PWI Contributing Writer
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- Pro Wrestling Illustrated said...
Well said, Mike. As a self-professed TNA fan, I think yours is a valuable opinion. Unfortunately, Dixie Carter and other TNA decision makers too frequently write off valid criticisms of their product to coming from "TNA haters." On the contrary, us critics wouldn't be so critical if we didn't sincerely want to see TNA succeed. And the single most important thing TNA needs to do is better look out for the health and safety of its employees. What we saw Sunday was a black stain on the entire sport, and TNA needs to act swiftly and decisively to address it--for the good of the company, its fans, Hardy and his daughter.
-Al Castle
PWI Senior Writer
- March 18, 2011 at 12:07 PM
Well said Mike.
- March 23, 2011 at 10:27 PM
Well put. Though I still sometimes think that part of this is an angle based off of how Hogan and Bischoff reacted on impact the week after turning their backs on him in the manner that they did, TNA need to keep themselves out of situations like the one they were put into. I understand the draw of Jeff Hardy, I wasn't a fan of him coming in, but his promos (the taped ones) as a heel were tremendous. TNA have to be able to trust those that they put in the main spotlight, and it doesn't seem like anyone can do that with Jeff right now.
TNA can fix this issue, but it starts with handling business properly. If it means cutting Jeff Hardy for a few months to get his legal mess out of the way, and trying to work out some kind of deal with WWE to get him some help if they aren't willing to go all-in for it themselves then that's what they need to do. A move like that would be unprecedented in today's business, but it would be for the betterment of both companies. It would help shed the perception that a lot of internet wrestling fans have that WWE is some kind of 'evil empire,' and working alongside WWE could help them actually prove that they're serious about taking care of talent.
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Friday, July 18, 2008
Oh my aching back
As a side note, and trying to get in the panda spirit, I think we should all chip in and buy SK this book. I've spotted 2 other apostrophe use errors since he let one slip into a recent strip (the other errors weren't in a strip).
* "chun" is apparently Texan for "I'd rather make stuff up than put some effort in." (Ugh -- sorry. That was a cheap shot; lately they've been too easy to resist. While I work on my own personal demons, I hope everyone can see through my horseshit -- PVP is some high quality shit, yo! At least I know Kurtz isn't reading this. (oh snap!))
51 comments:
- Linda said...
Ugh. People who are too PC-conscious often annoy me, but so does the half-assed Asian stereotyping in this storyline. On the one hand, I know that SK isn't being mean-spirited, and he's not racist, and he probably knows and is friends with several Asian people and so on.
On the other hand, I agree that the "-chun" thing and the fact that he can't differentiate between Chinese and Japanese cultures (as well as another poster's displeasure at how Mr. Miyagi is drawn) is pretty insensitive. It's laziness to the point of insult.
The thing about these kind of situations, though, is that when someone calls SK out on the insensitivity, he's likely to be offended. He probably thinks that, because he didn't intend it to be insulting, people shouldn't be insulted.
Of course, I'm putting words in his mouth here. Knowing how stubborn he is, though, I think his reaction would be closer to, "The PC Police is calling me racist! It's just a comic! Jeeze!" rather than, "Oh, you know, maybe I should do my research better next time."
- July 18, 2008 at 2:33 PM
What if it is all being done on purpose? The racism and the incorrect cultural references are being used to create a negative publicity, giving the comic a bit of "edge" and break away from the full main-stream appeal that has been commented on this blog beforehand.
And the improper use of apostrophes, well, he may just be doing to get a rise out of Scott here.
Also, with the way the storyline is going right now, Brent may be getting a different kind of "Panda Attack", which may be a way of giving the people who were complaining about Brent having to much face time a bone, pardon the innuendo.
So if the above happens, Brent may not be around for a bit, but just talked about, because if that happened to you, would you show your face anywhere if that happened?
- July 18, 2008 at 2:58 PM
I'm going to be the first to introduce a rating for the strips.
The panda series so far I'd give it two stars out of five, but todays strip is so poor I'm giving it one out of five.
It's just not doing it for me and I'd rather Scott moved on to something else. It's even worse because it's Friday and that means this panda series continues after the weekend into next week.
- July 18, 2008 at 3:00 PM
And I just had a random thought: How do we know if SK is not reading this still, and even more so, how do we know if Fake Scott here is not, in fact, SK?
- July 18, 2008 at 3:02 PM
Fake Scott donated a lot of money to Achewood. You can see his name in the contributors page. I don't think Scott Kurtz donates money, especially to other webcomics like Achewood.
Kurtz still visits the blog, along with Paul Southworth, Kris Straub and a few other popular cartoonists.
- July 18, 2008 at 3:12 PM
But how do you know that he doesn't donate to Achewood, and how long as Fake Scott been donating to Achewood?
- July 18, 2008 at 3:25 PM
What?! But I've been extra insulting with confidence that Scott Kurtz wouldn't be reading it!
Oh well. Somebody said it before, but this storlyine is in some ways similar to an episode of The Mighty Boosh except The Mighty Boosh was actually funny (it was an episode from when the series was still good.)
- July 18, 2008 at 3:26 PM
Scott has never said anything positive about Achewood, only Kris and Dave.
FSM donated once, I think it was over $100.
You have to remember that Scott Kurtz is always after free stuff and spend as little money as possible. He was just asking for someone to sell him a cheap Wii Fit just now on Twitter.
- July 18, 2008 at 3:32 PM
It is possible he grew to like it. Also, are Wii Fits still hard to get? If you can't find one under normal means, like shopping in stores and such, and had access to twitter, wouldn't you do a call out on it (btw, I did see the twitter call out).
- July 18, 2008 at 3:45 PM
My brother actually said they were still hard to get here. So yeah maybe it was worth him asking on Twitter if he can't find one round where he lives.
- July 18, 2008 at 3:47 PM
- Jai said...
I thought it was obvious that SK still reads this blog. He only made a point out of taking it out of his bookmarks because he wants TFSM to know that he's got the URL either memorized or set to his homepage.
"Brent, behind you PANDA!" is the worst excuse for dialogue I've read on PVP in a long time. It's terrible. I'm sorry. I'm sorry that it's terrible.
I'm also sorry that there is no consistancy of character for Brent. The previous strip had Brent unable to speak properly and adamantly opposed to whatever forces stuffed him into a panda suit. Today, we see him able to speak clearly and putting a good deal of vocal effort into hitting on the female panda (Which will work. She is used to pandas that talk, and speaks fluent English herself). And then Cole and Brent freak out when Maul appears - because he might beat up Brent? Which was the entire point of this setup?
- July 18, 2008 at 3:49 PM
Maybe it is possible that the helmet wasn't on right yesterday, and had the muffle speak. And I agree with the notion of Brent talking to the panda not making any sense, but that might of been the point.
The warning was silly and didn't make any sense within the context of what was supposed to happen, but SK need a way to have Brent sucker punch the panda and that was what came to his mind when he was trying to think of a way to progress the story in a way that I theorized above. ("Panda Attack", so to speak)
- July 18, 2008 at 4:00 PM
- Jai said...
I'm also peeved about how Ms. Panda seems to be sitting down, while Brent and Maul seem to be standing up. That Maul is standing up is a separate issue that I'm not comfortable with (It doesn't look right next to Brent); the real beef is that Brent is only slightly taller than a sitting panda. That can't be right, and I'm not going to bother retconning the situation so that it will work - i.e., "Maybe Brent is on his knees."
Not only would it be more "correct" for Brent to be crawling around on all fours, it would also look funny.
I think his panda costume would look better if he was wearing his sunglasses on the outside, too. Not only would THAT help him look funny, but SK could draw some emotion into the lenses (Ala the Scratch-in-lap strip) and I wouldn't be irked about how you can't tell a damn thing about what Brent is feeling by looking at him. This is not simply due to his face being concealed; his body language could also be vastly improved upon (Because there's nothing going on there at all) and there are a whole host of ways to draw "beaded sweat" that SK hasn't bothered with here.
- July 18, 2008 at 4:02 PM
I agree with the emoting, or lack there of, with Brent, but the panda size thing made sense to me. Maul always seemed to be as big as Skull to me, and since there is already one above average size panda is out there, why not two?
- July 18, 2008 at 4:13 PM
- Ti Chan said...
This whole strip was a rather large disappointment. He starts making up all these little tiny facts, and then screwing them over in the next comic. And it's gotten to be realllly annoying.
BTW, I completely believe that SK stills reads this blog. BUT he wanted to seem real manly and say he wasn't so that he looks like he doesn't care. BUT, it's against his nature to put so much attention into it and then WAM ignore it.
PS. Why is Pandora's tongue sticking out and under her hand? It just looks a little awkward. And that IS nitpicking.
- July 18, 2008 at 4:36 PM
Meh. People complaining about the cultural accuracy of exactly how a guy - coming to help a panda, living in a game review magazine's offices, reproduce - make me sad.
PVPMMS has jumped the shark.
- July 18, 2008 at 4:47 PM
Isn't he doing the strips the day before now? Maybe that has something to do with the overall quality of them, since he feels rushed to get them up and is currently planning to go to SD Comcicon he is currently being stretched thin.
Maybe a couple weeks of guest strips will let him recharge himself, and thus the comic itself, because while I think that the idea of it is funny, it seems forced.
- July 18, 2008 at 4:50 PM
And by idea of it, I meant the Panda Mating thing going on right now.
- July 18, 2008 at 4:53 PM
- reader said...
You know, I mentioned a while back how PvP was getting closer to becoming a weekly visit as opposed to daily...
Today's strip made me drag the bookmark from "Daily" to "Weekly" in my Webcomics folder.
I know me mentioning it here doesn't really matter, but I'm hoping that SK does indeed still read this site, and I'm hoping that maybe this post will do a tiny bit towards making him wake up and realize that his writing is just as important as his art - which, it must be said, is very nice and is consistently improving.
The shark has been jumped, and it was a panda. Or was it a wedding? Not sure.
- July 18, 2008 at 5:00 PM
- Jai said...
SK should devote an entire week to "PVP Makes Me Sad Guest Week", where he challenges us to come up with enough guest strips to fill a week of vacay for him. That sounds like fun, although admittedly it's simply an "off the top of my head" idea. And it sort of depends on enough of us (And SK) being willing to try that.
- July 18, 2008 at 5:00 PM
- Jai said...
@Reader: It's going to be a panda wedding!
- July 18, 2008 at 5:01 PM
If people keep saying that Scott is still reading this, and Scott really is reading this, he might stop reading this just to prove you wrong once and for all even though nobody will be aware of his victory. Maybe he will then only come back every month telling himself that he's just checking to see if it has become worthy of his attention again.
Or maybe he will read this post and decide not to boycott the blog for real just to prove me wrong. Or maybe he will read that addendum to this post and firmly commit to continue coming here so as to prove the later part wrong. He's a complex guy so it's hard to predict just how his pettiness will manifest itself.
- July 18, 2008 at 5:02 PM
Let's just hope he doesn't make a spin-off like "The Pursuit of Happy Days". Though an interlude like that may be funny to see.
- July 18, 2008 at 5:03 PM
- Sage said...
If you guys wanted to look ahead to see the results of that little hit on the nose put this in your web browser
Eh i dont think us writing a webcomic would be that good.
- July 18, 2008 at 8:22 PM
Is that really the punchline?
I mean, normally I can see Kurtz trying to be funny, and falling flat on his face, but this time? It's like he's not even trying.
- July 19, 2008 at 12:00 AM
I wonder why he didnt go along with that panda AIDS punchline.
So does this mean the end of the panda story arc? All those strips just to get up to that weak punchline.
- July 19, 2008 at 12:51 AM
- Sage said...
Well he is actually written ahead since he is a SDCC.
If you add a type in 722 and 723 instead of 721 at the end of http you see the strips for Teus and Wed.
- July 19, 2008 at 8:59 AM
To say the ending is surprising would be like getting thrown by Sunday following Saturday. Saying that, I'm not sure how any ending could have been worth the past two weeks of panda-themed dross.
- July 19, 2008 at 9:26 AM
I miss storylines that actually reflected the humor of a gaming magazine run by multi-generational nerds.
So far this summer, We've had three superhero hero movies, a trailer for a new star wars CG movie, Watchmen and The Sprit.
And what are you doing, Kurtz? Another panda story.
- July 19, 2008 at 9:56 AM
I think I'll wait for the comics to come out normally, but I do agree with the statement of "Where are the game references?" Though, years ago, he did do a week long story based on the fact that there are no gaming references.
- July 19, 2008 at 1:42 PM
I personally have ran out of things to say about disappointing this comic strip is now. I will continue reading it because I have nothing better to do and I continue to hope it will improve. But after seeing the conclusion to the panda storyline I would just prefer if SK ended the strip forever.
- July 19, 2008 at 5:07 PM
Some of you may recall in interviews where he was asked to make a strip about videogames, but he thought that would be really boring. Because there's only so much you can say about videogames.
And to a certain extent, that's correct. There's only so much you can say about any subject. But the fact that he seems to have an outright aversion to it means that most of his references feel tacked on and clumsy.
(See his recent Diablo 3 reference.)
In fact, one of my favorite game-related stories he did was when Jade was having a secret romance in Everquest, and when she went away to meet him in real life, the mystery man is revealed to be Brent.
- July 19, 2008 at 6:42 PM
- Sage said...
Its not to say his strip should SOLEY be gaming references, but if you mix in reference like "commercials" to his storyline I think he would do etter with his overall product.
- July 19, 2008 at 8:25 PM
maybe its the beggining of a new recurring joke once a month instead of a panda atk brent will be raped
probably just kisses and death hugs to be family friendly
- July 19, 2008 at 8:42 PM
Good god, just when I thought it couldn't get any worse:
Seriously, THAT'S your joke?! I thought maybe it's just a set up for the next strip, but no...
Oh god, just get it over with and bring back Skull so we don't have to sit through 2 weeks of Scratch
crap. I'm all for Kurtz trying new things, but this just doesn't feel like trying at all.
- July 19, 2008 at 9:31 PM
Dear Scott,
Copying and pasting Cole in three panels with something funny happening to his face in the last one was not funny the first time. Why would it be funny now?
Scott Kurtz
- July 19, 2008 at 10:21 PM
Oh god, it's so depressing seeing how poor next weeks strips are. I was kinda hoping things would pick up. I suppose on the plus side atleast Scott finally has a buffer so he can play Tetris all day and watch old movies.
Here are next weeks strips.
Monday's Strip
Panda aids would have been funnier.
Tuesday's Strip
So no more panda attacks? FSM will love this one, it's hilarious.
Wednesday's Strip
The background keeps disappearing and I still think Marcies hair looks god awful.
Thursday's Strip
Friday's Strip
This ones not too bad. Maybe we could have had some decent ones of Stewie finally realizing that Skull is gone instead of that panda series.
- July 20, 2008 at 1:06 AM
- Julia said...
I'm not even sure what the hell is going on in Thursday's strip. I assume the light fell on his head (OMG!LOL!) but the art makes it look like there was a rip in the space/time continuum or something. All I know is that Wednesday doesn't seem like a one off strip, though it apparently is, and Thursdays strip is the weakest stand alone anything I have ever seen.
- July 20, 2008 at 4:51 AM
- John-Claude said...
I want to know where Scott gets away with charging for sketches at Comic Con. I've had free ones from people like Daniel Clowes and Mike Mignola. And Kurtz is nowhere near those guys in terms of popularity or ability. Not that I'd really want a PvP sketch, but still...
- July 20, 2008 at 12:00 PM
It's up to the artist if they want to charge for sketches. After all, they don't draw themselves.
Of course, it's up to the consumer if they'll pay for them.
But hey, at least they're not charging for autographs. Those guys are dicks.
- July 20, 2008 at 1:46 PM
- Ti Chan said...
Looking at the buffers the SK has, I am REALLY disappointed. It's a another case of "I don't really know where I am going with this bus, so I'm just going to stop in the middle of the road." He picks up a storyline, either makes it good or make it seem like it SHOULD BE, and then doesn't know how to end it so either pulls it out his ass or just shrugs it off.
And then his filler comics are horrible. It's true. Tues and Thurs are really just HORRIBLE. And Wed seems to be going somewhere but just runs off into nowhere. Also, why the HELL is Francis talking to COLE about his college of choice BEFORE his mother/father? And if this is what Francis really wants, maybe his parents will say yes... Why is Cole naysaying it instead of telling him to talk it out with said real parents?
That comics really disappoints. I would have loved to have a kinda college tour storyline for Francis. Once that DOESN'T constantly involve Brent.
- July 21, 2008 at 5:11 AM
- Chrysee said...
oh god I just saw the rest of the week's comics and the college one with the Good Will Hunting joke(???) is just.. awful. I can't even believe it. The moment the panda story arc started I just sighed to myself and wondered how long until it would be over.
- July 21, 2008 at 5:31 AM
- Ti Chan said...
It gets worse people...
That's... That's simply a horrible joke. Period.
- July 21, 2008 at 6:44 AM
- Julia said...
Surely that's a joke. Kurtz knows that we all read ahead so he put something in Monday's date that won't actually show up, right? Please?
- July 21, 2008 at 7:06 AM
- Ti Chan said...
Julia, let's hope. Let's hope.
Otherwise, I am totally joining his board just to tear THAT specific comic apart.
Gay jokes. Didn't we already say how childish they were?
- July 21, 2008 at 7:25 AM
It's not the best time for him to make fun of another comic (i.e. Family Circus) when he's so far from bringing his A-game lately. Skull never bothered me before but for some reason he's starting to get on my nerves in a Jar-Jar way.
- July 21, 2008 at 7:47 AM
- Brandon said...
Personally, I think it's a fabulous joke, perhaps the best one in weeks. For once, Scott's not making a gay joke, but social critique; he's poking fun at the status quo clusterf@ck that is Family Circus while at the same time taking to task the current resurgence in anti-gay marriage/adoption sentiment.
Look at the way Skull's turned towards the kid, and not looking in the same direction as him. This indicates surprise on his part for hearing that nonsense. So, this time the focus is not on a gay person, gay actions, etc., but on a homophobic little boy and what he said. The fact that it's through the lens of Family Circus reinforces the critique and shows that Scott is saying that the problem here is nothing but this ridiculous statement that is held by far too many people.
I mean come on, he actually shows someone _praying_ to "fix" someone else's sexuality. The only way this could be funnier is if it were a Chick Track, and we knew the "artist" was not being ironic (because laughing at actual stupidity is way better than the hypothetical variety).
I think the only problem with this is that, unlike Family Circus, it's actually funny.
- July 21, 2008 at 8:05 AM
Just a mild tangent, re: next Wednesday's strip.
I find it hard to believe that the editor-in-chief of a computer gaming magazine has never heard of DigiPen, and has a negative attitude toward it.
- July 21, 2008 at 8:39 AM
- Jaap said...
Holy shit! PVP takes place in a computer gaming magazine office?!
- July 21, 2008 at 9:20 AM
There are more video game related jokes in Ugly Hill than there are in PvP.
Scott if you're fed up with people wanting to see strips about video games, then maybe you should cut out of the fact that they all work for a video game magazine.
- July 21, 2008 at 9:52 AM
- Steven said...
Not funny to me, but I don't know anything about this Family Circus thingamajob. That might hurt the punchline a bit.
Anyway, I don't think it's something particularly clever or original. Oh well.
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After all, the veteran winger known more for his pugilism or forechecking than goal-scoring recorded his fourth goal in the first 17 games of the Bruins' season tonight in Boston's 4-0 win over Florida at TD Garden.
But prior to the current campaign — and honestly, even this year — skating on the wing opposite Thornton meant it was time to simplify your game and shift your focus back to going to the dirty areas, banging some bodies and maybe even tearing some tough guy's head off in a scrap.
Milan Lucic knows that method well. Often over the course of the last two seasons when Lucic would start to struggle skating on a top line alongside the likes of Marc Savard or David Krejci, Julien would get his message across to Lucic by sticking him on a grinding line with Thornton and whoever the center of the year was.
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There's been no reason to convince Lucic to stop being too cute or too fancy so far this season. Playing opposite Nathan Horton and next to Krejci first, and now Patrice Bergeron, Lucic has started to fulfill his potential as a legitimate power forward – the type of player Boston bargained for when it committed to a three-year, $12.25 million contract that started this season.
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Lucic hadn't scored at home since Game 7 of that ill-fated Philadelphia playoff series last spring. He scored just nine goals in 50 injury-plagued games last season. When this season started, some – including this writer – scoffed when Lucic spoke of reaching 20 goals for the first time as an NHLer. Now he's on pace to reach 40.
The Bruins' offense was supposed to be better because of Horton and Tyler Seguin's arrival, Savard and Marco Sturm's eventual health and a more active defense featuring Johnny Boychuk and Matt Hunwick. Lucic was somewhere toward the bottom of the top 10 reasons why Boston's league-worst offense from a year ago would once again make opposing goaltenders pay. Now he's at least in the top three.
When Lucic arrived in Boston as a 19-year-old junior-eligible player trying make the NHL roster, he was already mature for his age and dealt with the ups and downs of his rookie season with aplomb. Battling injury last season – a dreaded high-ankle sprain no less – tested the bulky winger's mettle, and he wasn't quite his jolly self off the ice nor his ornery self on the sheet. Maybe he would've built off that two-goal performance in Game 7 against the Flyers in the next round, but we never got to find out.
All the hockey skills that are coming together in Lucic to turn him into a player that can run you over and bury the puck in the net on a nightly basis wouldn't be shining so bright right now were it not for him taking the next step in his maturity. He could've hung his head when he learned that his projected and past regular center Savard wouldn't be around. But he instead embraced the Krejci-Horton combo as a chance to still perform.
And then there's the matter of staying on that top line from the start of the season until now. The temptation to suddenly start trying to skate figure eights with the puck and stick handle along the walls rather than plow defenders over and make mince meat of them in the corners, hasn't tantalized Lucic. He has stuck to the orders given him by Julien and the coaching staff. That's a major sign that as a player, Lucic is almost all grown up.
Milan Lucic is supposed to be a scoring bulldozer, a Tazmanian devil (sorry Terry O'Reilly), a Cam Neely Lite (even at 228 pounds in the gentler, 21st century NHL). Although we're not even at the quarter pole of the season, you can tell that this is could be the year that puts Lucic on everyone's list of dynamic modern-day NHL power forwards.


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n December 19, 1801, South Carolina College was chartered as one of the nation's first publicly supported institutions of higher education.
On January 10, 1805, the first students entered South Carolina College and thus began the history not only of the University of South Carolina, but also of publicly supported higher education in South Carolina.
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With December upon us, the fall athletic season is either in the books or nearing completion for collegiate programs all across the country. At Waynesburg University, all of those varsity athletic teams recently wrapped up their 2014 campaigns, and the squads produced no shortage of success.
Two of these teams—football and women's cross country—excelled both on and off the field (or course).
Football earned a share of second place in the Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) by defeating previously unbeaten Washington and Jefferson in the regular season finale. The Yellow Jackets qualified for an Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) bowl game for the fourth consecutive season, hosting one of the contests for the second time in three years.
When the PAC announced its all-conference teams, Waynesburg landed 17 players on the squads, including a league-best five first-team offensive selections. The Yellow Jackets, who finished 8-3 overall, also took home the PAC Team Sportsmanship Award.
In the classroom, three players were named to the CoSIDA Capital One Academic All-District 4 Division III Football Team, and two of those players—senior John Sikora and junior Mike Lopuchovsky—were honored as Academic All-Americans.
Women's cross country finished second at the PAC Championships, falling just short of dethroning now-26-time champion Grove City. Individually, six runners earned All-PAC status at the event, including three first-team honorees, and head coach Chris Hardie was named Coach of the Year.
The future certainly looks bright for the Yellow Jackets, too, as four of their All-PAC performers were freshmen and one was a sophomore. One of those freshmen, Julie Gerber, led the charge by finishing second overall.
Off the course, the Yellow Jacket women teamed up with the men's squad to complete a service project in Gettysburg (see above photo).
Football and cross country were not the only Waynesburg teams to experience success this fall, either. Here are a few other achievements, both on and off the field, of the Yellow Jacket athletic program:
- Men's soccer qualified for the PAC Championship Tournament for the first time since the current format began back in 2005.
- Women's soccer qualified for the ECAC Division III South tournament.
- Volleyball hosted its annual Dig Pink match to benefit breast cancer research and prevention.
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The Cult 2008 Launches!
ATTENTION: The site speed is back. In full effect. And it may even be getting faster yet. Also, you can now post new threads again. Sorry about that.
The day is finally here. The Cult 2008 comes alive! It started as a discussion between Kirk and I last Spring about updating the website. And what began as possibly just a redesign, soon blew up into giving you all an entirely new user experience.
I think many of you were assuming you were going to login today (or last week, lol) and see the same site, but in a different color. Perhaps with a new header? Fuck no. We went to bat for you all and spent countless hours designing and building and tweaking until we turned this ChuckPalahniuk.net into what it deserves to be. We encourage you all to explore every nook and cranny of this new house.
But here are some of the highlighted features:
- The entire site is now databased. This means every facet and element of it is now SEARCHABLE. You have to be logged in to use this feature. But go check it out.
- We have an entirely new Gallery system. This is so immense and detailed, that it could almost serve as its own website. I think we have over 500 images in there. Many of which, you've never seen before. And during Chuck's next tour, you'll be able to upload you're own pictures finally! (the navigation on the Gallery is undergoing maitenance)
- Dynamic sidebars. Never have our sidebars been this interesting. Between Random Images and New Content boxes, to Polls and a custom Workshop control panel for Premium Members.
- A brand new Writer's Workshop, with a dynamic dashboard which notifies you when you have New Reviews, New Buddies, New Submissions, and plenty more!
- Not to mention Chats, Groups, Blogs, and social networking Profiles!
And oh yeah... Chuck Palahniuk's exclusive writing essays return to The Cult! Not only has Chuck allowed us to repost his original 23 essays from 2004-2005 (as well as his 14 Q&A sessions). But he is unveiling 12 new essays for 2008! Not only that, but these 12 new essays are FREE TO ALL! The bonus to being a Premium Members is, you will get them one month earlier then . Not to mention, you get access to all the archived essays, which Registered Members don't. But to open up with a bang, and give you all something fun to chew on, here is Chuck's January essay, right now, available to everyone: Killing Time Part I by Chuck Palahniuk.
Then there's that other big piece of news -- the Forum is now completely free! 120x120 avatars for everyone! Signatures for everyone! And best, no limit on your Inboxes! Some of you may notice that we no longer use VBulletin though. We tried, folks. We really did. But it simply wouldn't integrate into our new database (called Drupal, by the way). So it had to be abandoned. What we have now is a work in progress. A 'soft launch'. It's going to get better though. Trust us on that. But for now, please go easy, and try to make the best of it. Many of the features you grew used to simply aren't available in the core install of this new forum, but will soon be added as modules. So stay tuned! We promise.
Also, if you have a weird character in your username, like an ampersand or something, contact Mirka about it.
I'll wrap it up there. As I'm sure you'd rather go explore the new site than read me all day. We have a Poll set up so you can vote on what new features of the site you like best. We also have a way for you to Comment and Rate most of the images in the Gallery. The Forum is up and running. You'll just need to be logged in to post. Premium Members are good to go with the Workshop. Just keep in mind that the next few weeks with the Workshop are very vital. We've only unveiled half of the new features you'll be getting. So your feedback is important for this section.
This goes for all of you: If you find bugs on the site, broken links, images that don't show up, or glitchy resolution issues. Anything. We want to know about it. You can email firstname.lastname@example.com or post about it in our Website forum.
Lastly, I want to acknowledge the work of Kirk, Clayton, Mirka, Brad and Mark, who, along with me, all pulled it together during crunch time. Many of them were home on New Year's Eve working on the site. And spent most of their Holidays at their computer. But I want to make a special mention of Mr. Kirk Clawes, our Site Programmer. If it wasn't for Kirk, none of this would have happened. I may direct the whole operation, but if it wasn't for Kirk lighting the fire under my ass... then pushing me to consider all his new and dangerous ideas (lol), then going further by researching Drupal (what our new site is housed in), teaching himself how to use it, and then even designing the entire site (yes, this pretty new picture you're staring at, Kirk designed)... this would have been all talk. And no results. So thanks, man. All those long MSN conversations where you wanted to rip my head off amounted to something, eh?
Last minute thanks and acknowledgements go to Roland Gaberz, and old friend of the site who has done a lot of great design for us over the years. The header image you see above was based off a modificatin of Roland's original design. I also want to point out all the work Clayton did (and is still doing) on our Writer's Workshop. The guy is a locomotive. And when he wasn't working on the Workshop, he was helping Kirk, or answering stupid questions from me, Mirka and Mark. Clayton also spent all day Monday trying to get this site online. So he deserves our gratitude. And last, I want to thank Mark and all the Workshop mods who pitched in on our discussions about what the new Workshop should be. Without their guidance, Clayton would not have had a clear concept to work with.
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A lawsuit challenging North Dakota's same-sex marriage ban -- the last in the country to be challenged in court -- was filed Friday morning, a deputy clerk confirmed.
The complaint challenging the constitutional ban on gay marriage and the state's refusal to recognize marriages of same-sex couples who legally wed in other states, was being processed in the Fargo division, where it was filed.
With this latest filing, 31 states with same-sex marriage bans have cases pending.
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Individual Design (Bachelor of Arts)
The IDM is a nondepartmental, interdisciplinary major for those College of Arts and Sciences Bachelor of Arts candidates whose academic interests are not met by the major programs currently offered by the College. An IDM may not be a program of narrow professional training. Rather, it must lead to an intensive investigation of some broad area of human knowledge which is not covered by a single departmental discipline. During the senior year, IDM majors engage in a three-credit tutorial for which they complete a paper or an equivalent project which demonstrates the essential coherence of the major. A College Honors project (six credits) may be substituted for the tutorial requirement. Application to pursue an IDM should be approved by the Committee on Honors and Individual Studies before the end of the candidate's junior year. No more than eighteen credits of the proposed major may be completed at the time of application. Additional information about the IDM program is available in the Office of the Dean.
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Chinese New Year Sweet and Sour Fish
- serves 4
Recipe courtesy Martin Yan.
Recipe courtesy Martin Yan.
1 whole fish (2 to 3 pounds), such as sea bass or rock cod, cleaned and scaled (908 g to 1362g)
2 Tbsp dry sherry (30 ml)
1 tsp salt (5 ml)
2 eggs, lightly beaten
Cornstarch for coatingSauce
½ cup water (125 ml)
¼ cup rice vinegar (60 ml)
¼ cup sugar (60 ml)
3 Tbsp ketchup (45 ml)
1 Tbsp dry sherry (15 ml)
1 Tbsp soy sauce (15 ml)
½ tsp chili oil (2 ml)
1-1/2 tbsp. cornstarch mixed with 3 tablespoons water (22 ml)Assembly
Vegetable oil for pan-frying
1 clove garlic, minced
1 Tbsp of 1-1/2-inch slivers fresh ginger
1 carrot, cut into 1-1/2-inch slivers
1/2 green bell pepper, seeded and cut into 1-1/2-inch slivers
½ cup 1-1/2-inch slivers bamboo shoots
2 green onions (including tops), cut into 1-1/2-inch slivers
2 Tbsp chicken broth
1. On each side of fish, make 3 or 4 diagonal slashes about 1 -inch apart, cutting down to the bone each time. Rub fish with sherry and salt; set aside.
2. Dip fish into eggs, then coat with cornstarch, shaking off excess. Let stand for 2 to 3 minutes.
3. Place wide, nonstick frying pan over high heat until hot. Add oil. Place fish into pan and cook, turning once until cooked through, about 6 minutes per side. Transfer to a heat-proof serving platter and keep warm in a 200 degree F. oven.Sauce
1. Combine all sauce ingredients except cornstarch solution in a medium-size saucepan. Bring sauce to a boil over medium-high heat, stirring constantly. Add cornstarch solution and cook, stirring, until sauce boils and thickens. Set aside.
2. Remove all but 2 tablespoons oil from pan. Add garlic and ginger; cook, stirring, until fragrant. Add carrot, bell pepper, bamboo shoots, green onions, and broth; stir-fry for about 1-1/2 minutes or until vegetables are crisp-tender. Set aside.
3. Remove from heat; add stir-fried vegetables and stir to coat. Pour vegetables and sauce over fish; serve hot.Assembly
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|After his
brother is wounded at Fredericksburg in 1862, Whitman goes to Washington to
take care of him and stays on to visit the wounded in the Washington
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sights that greets him is a pile of amputated legs and arms, for the .58
caliber Minie balls or bullets, fired at slow velocity, resulted in shattered
bones and gaping wounds and infections.
|Whitman visits
the wounded every day for several years, until his health breaks down. He writes letters, reads to the men, brings
them goodies--tobacco, which he doesn't use himself, fruit, brandy--and lifts
their spirits.
experiences in New York with helping hurt stage and wagon drivers was
|During this
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"Every time a friend succeeds," wrote Gore Vidal, "I die a little."
Hopefully this isn't how Melissa McCarthy's former Groundlings pals feel in the face of her recent globe-conquering stardom, or they'd be dead a hundred times over. However they feel, they'll get the chance to express the shock and awe of the "Spy" star's blockbuster success in "Friends With Melissa," a TV Land pilot in which three of McCarthy's old improv partners watch one of their own make it big while they toil away penning kids' shows.
McCarthy and her husband Ben Falcone have landed a pilot deal with TV Land for such a show about her friends, which they're also slated to executive produce. The show will be written and EP'd by Hugh Davidson, Larry Dorf and Rachel
Ramras. McCarthy will appear in the pilot.
"We are continuing to build our stable of innovative, engaging and
challenging comedies, which is exactly what Melissa, Ben and these
writers have brought us," said TV Land. "With this script being from a group
of alums from the Groundlings, we're excited to know they'll have an
endless amount of creativity and interesting experiences to pull from."
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On Tuesday, June 9th, the second day of the Movement Disorder Society International Congress in Paris, Dr. Warren Olanow, one of the world's leading Parkinson's specialists, gave a brilliant and authoritative talk on the subject of "What's New in Parkinson's Trials?"
His focus was three high-profile clinical trials that have been watched intently and anxiously by people with Parkinson's around the world.
- One was the Ceregene trial, in which a growth factor called neurturin (CERE-120) was delivered via a gene therapy technique.
- The second was STRIDE, in which a levodopa-COMT inhibitor (Stalevo(R)) was tested for its potential impact on improving dyskinesias.
- The third was ADAGIO, designed to test the potential of rasagaline (Azilect(R)), a PD therapeutic that was approved several years ago to control symptoms of PD, for its potential to actually slow the course of the disease.
Dr. Olanow began his talk by saying that it has been an "extraordinary year …with many new trials involving drugs that offer promise to the patients we serve." And he concluded it by saying it has been "wonderfully interesting."
The trouble is, all three trials failed. What does this story mean for PWPs?
To this observer, it means several things:
- The obvious one is that the intuitive perspective of many clinical scientists is simply different from that of most people with Parkinson's. Studying something, however much one may yearn for it to be successful – as Dr. Olanow does — is just not the same thing as living with it.
- Second, it means — as the speaker himself pointed out in his closing minutes – that we need to do more work in the early stages of the investigative process (e.g., Phase-One trials) to provide greater assurance of efficacy before we proceed to put people living with Parkinson's through the strains and too-often dashed hopes of the much more expensive later stages (e.g., Phase-Three trials).
- Third, of course, it means, as Ira Shoulson, M.D., another major leader of clinical research and a collaborator with the PDF on several current projects, said to me recently, "clinical research is very, very hard!" Whether it be the imperfections of animal models of Parkinson's disease, or the data-confounding impact of the notorious placebo effect, or the impact of physician-scientist bias (after all, they too want the trials to succeed!), or simply the immense complexity of defining "end points" – that, is what the measures should be of success or failure, and whether they will be accepted by the FDA – Parkinson's trials are indeed very hard to do.
There is of course a silver lining to this cloud: that today's failed trial may be the basis for tomorrow's successful one.
In at least two of the three trials that Dr. Olanow mentioned, the data have suggested a next step that could have a different outcome. In the Ceregene trial, for example, when the managers went back to see how the trial participants looked three to six months after the trial concluded, they found that some had improved – suggesting that perhaps – just perhaps – the problem was that the trial concluded too early. And in ADAGIO, there does in fact seem to be some neuroprotective effect at lower doses of the drug (though, mystifyingly, not at higher doses), giving some grounds for hope.
In my next post, I will share with you some other things that struck me as interesting about the meeting – including a bird's eye view of potential new treatments that are currently in the pipeline.


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Archaeology: a brief introduction
Little, Brown, 1978 - Social Science - 194 pages
For introductory level courses in Archaeology and as a supplement for courses in Physical Anthropology where the instructor would like to integrate archaeology. This introduction to the fundamental principles of method and theory in archaeology, is the only book that also exposes students to archaeology as a career.The book begins with the goals of archaeology, then goes on to consider the basic concepts of culture, time, and space, and the finding and excavation of archaeological sites.
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